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Tuesday, 9 June 2026

Council Memory Trench (final draft)

 


One leg in annuities, solstices, 

sanctuaries, woes 

breakthrough my heart is dumb brassic

wiping off at the diadem floodlights 

around dead fens being dead. 

The underclass discussed 

on mumsnet 

Do we have one? Why?

Who or what is responsible?

When did it all go wrong

answers on a postcard 

sans reveries & you work

in the midnight purpling hue 

tips stars to lug imminent

a 10-point code of conduct 

a dream covered nothing 

boiling the Urban White Paper

Urban Renaissance BioMed Centre 

identikit detailing 

quoin metal black bile actual slogans 

around our heads into buzzword tearing

wrenched quiet to my scrying door plate

vandal-proof lights

mixed-use workforce,

the sugar pill vapour trails

Marina developments

micro segregation blood fielding

in treacle-like gloss paint; 

plastic art planted in concrete 

business district winding down

Era Two is more optimistic

spec boasting holes a ‘Transversal Space’ 

in Quango fortified Post-Good

stock-brick-cladground-floor blast walls

scratching the edge forevermore. 


Russell Group firebrands 

in spirited Rosewood Calf Leathers 

kicks me down 

this gangway job pissed town 

it’s yours in a sports bags 

you can have it 

outside Langham Place sans consentement  

in Corsham stone nuptials of god & god the Stone 

beneath volutes Justice 4 Fathers Spidermans 

half suspended with a daughter’s guitar

‘In the Name of The Father’ by Bono, 

Trafalgar Groves Victory Footprint

Link sculpture with its panoramic viewfinder

In what kind of country is this?

class fatalised Bowellism 

sick rose winedrunk on a broadloom 

Pushkin floor there are Steinways to follow 

& seraphs on Brooke street

it's the colour between thawed gurgles 

that what really matters

& London is the centre 

of wicker fence panels 

its river territories broken  

under Blackfriars Bridge 

starry rushes chainfated

what deposit slot rolled 

cobblestones glomfaced 

outside Automatic Hydraulic 

anti-terror bollards  

in the event of a loss of power

non-sector chaperones 

allow the ingress of cool air 

with warm air flowing out 

through two tall vents forming wings 

that mirror each other, 

public private bokes all set to chrome 

it’s underlight schism hums 

laws balustrade is this 

Asset Management Limited 

its sleeves shining scraped 

upon its roof burning day 

into your eyes rising the stone 

of the plaza into every living sign 

a public-space guru 

in Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton 

rooms screening Live Below The Line

& what will you do Alfie Deyes 

with the cadres of flashbacks, 

reliving the downside of nostalgic

austerity trend for 20 minutes 

now this is Bang at Sportcity 

the Plateau, the Field, the Garden agenda  

gala of dystopian domes 

& Logan's Run of my wrecking desire

in multi-use pause areas 

on the lips a Levelling Up, 

the economic pie everywhere 

& for everyone, not re-slicing it

Teesworks in Redcar & sell it 

these new clusters 

will be our Fourth Industrial Revolution 

in Sunderland headwinds in the past

spread thin through Freeports,

Enterprise Zones Super-deductions

weaving a thread for Investment 

New Classical macroeconomics 

New Classical tiny glass beads

powered dreaming fields 

new satin finish logscales 

peerless white limestone 

of chlorine ducts a flaming urn 

& no drinking water 

for this sabre of light,

filigree lightness is anodyne 

& as low as possible 

over the tidal Thames

every child to thrive

on decoy vent fed air.


Off seed cathedrals noon-marked 

monocoques hollowed to dusk 

the development sequence 

scratched inside wet paper brain 

Werkstatt the swilling ‘ideas engine’ 

Stanhope PLC a field of glass, 

windswept Thomas Heatherwick 

your mother’s bead expertise 

& lifts the heart in Milton Keynes

seeing futuristic housing 

prototypes a Workplace Mediation Specialist 

hangs a heavy chain over my heart  

your team knows why 

& takes my eyes out 

explore a National Landlord Register  

at the Construction Expo 

Five Angel Heads Comprise

the biosphere & how to die in it? 

new County Deals 

devolved administrations, 

sitting on the 

laver of eclipsed arches 

all human malevolence 

is planned orange light 

porphyry stone stand on the backs 

it’s meaningless orange light 

porphyry stone 

& the loggia curls quiet out composite 

social typology bonded 

& elevated again, 

cleaned spurriers to mercer yoke

& no passage for foot 

in the shadow of the new Cathedral, 

the paying metronauts

‘I came here to swim 

in the highest pool in Europe

& I’ll be back again tomorrow’ 

plugging austerities in the wren 

binds a midnight tabulation 

over spitting concrete 

the drills, the controlled explosions,

the Corporation Cliff Richard

Operation Yew Tree & nobodies safe

wedded nodes the diminutions 

& you eat them in the Giant Needery

little britain with wards tested

gladi/haemophilia + binos 

evenings golden hour draped 

black velvet above winged griffin

the shallow end of Bullism 

& you face it